Example sentences of "it came [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came with some reminder of youth , of the south . |
| 2 | When death came from the long-range German counter battery guns , it came with frightening suddenness . |
| 3 | Although Mr MacKarness wo n't confirm it , the Fowlers claim the price was just £70,000 because it came with sitting tenants . |
| 4 | After eighteen months of the new type of service , it came under strong attack , first in the Press and second from concerned professional observers . |
| 5 | Despite the involvement of the BBC in its establishment , when broadcasting began in Tanganyika it came under direct government control through the Social Development Department . |
| 6 | FRANCE and Germany pledged yesterday to defend the French franc if it came under further attack from speculators , but they dismissed suggestions that they might link their two currencies in a mini monetary union . |
| 7 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 8 | In this case , though , when I totalled their length it came to 2,000 words ; and the books editor had asked for 700 . |
| 9 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 10 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 11 | If it came to straightforward riot control , the most appropriate force would probably be the 12,000-strong People 's Police Alert units , under the control of the ministry of the interior . |
| 12 | For Whitehall he was a ‘ handy City man ’ when it came to international finance , especially prior to 1914 when Britain practised imperialism in competition with other great powers . |
| 13 | In addition , many schools were failing ‘ to venture beyond undemanding popular authors or books associated with favourite television characters ’ when it came to encouraging children to read novels . |
| 14 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 15 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 16 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 17 | The flamboyant impulsive talkative Celts of Ireland 's Iron Age may , in their enthusiasm , have put just a little too much emphasis on quantity rather than quality when it came to liquid refreshments . |
| 18 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 19 | The Frizzell sons-in-law might wear halos , but when it came to financial success they were nowhere . |
| 20 | Men had n't a bit of sense when it came to personal relationships . |
| 21 | When we did it fairly roughly , it came to one point two ? |
| 22 | Quite funny in the shop , erm it came to one pound ninety two which is the usual price |
| 23 | H. C. Wyld , for example , was a very great expert on the grossly divergent regional dialects of Middle English , but when it came to post-sixteenth-century English , he was quite insistent that the only object worthy of our study was Received Standard English . |
| 24 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |
| 25 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 26 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 27 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 28 | Marin Ceauşescu 's position at the Romanian Foreign Trade Mission in Vienna made him the provider of the family 's needs when it came to everyday items from razor blades to video films . |
| 29 | But he had a dark side , too , as I 'm sure everybody knows , and Seve Ballesteros could n't lace Weiskopf 's boots when it came to bad temper on the course . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |